Bohumil Hrabal wrote the charming story, "Too Loud a Solitude," of a trash compacter operator, Hanta, who endeavors to save fine books from destruction in a society which is racing to destroy them, mindlessly. I think it was a transparent parody of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Czechoslovakia.
Speaking of which, I heard on NPR that some community put on a dramatization of "Fahrenheit 451."